To be precise, the Black Tiger Family were the direct descendants of the Lin Family's founding ancestor. The founding ancestor's second son, Lin Feibiao, fathered the founding ancestor's eleventh grandson, Lin Biaoqi, and the Black Tiger Family belonged to Lin Biaoqi's bloodline. Thus, the Black Tiger Family were the purest branch-blood descendants of the Lin Clan, and the Lin Clan's Family Prayer had, truth be told, only been secretly passed down among a very small number of descendants from the branch bloodlines left behind by the founding ancestor's first six sons.
The reason the Black Tiger Family had been forced by certain people to journey far to the Western Continent and establish themselves there was partly due to the Twelve Ancient Clans' need to suppress the various Forbidden Regions, and partly because Lin Feibiao and Lin Biaoqi had died in battle within the Forbidden Regions one after another. Having lost the highest-ranking ancestral figures to make decisions for them, the members of this branch bloodline of the Black Tiger Family naturally lost some of their confidence.
It was precisely for this reason that, when Lin Qi first returned to Tiger Island, those collateral-branch clansmen had dared to make things difficult for him time and again. Had it been Lin Seventy-Seven's direct descendants instead—such as Lin Feiqian and his two daughters—then even though those collateral-branch clansmen held the administrative authority of the Tiger Clan's main household, how would they have dared lay a hand on them?
Lin Qi was even beginning to suspect that those members of the Lin Family's collateral branches—the ones who had now been purged from Tiger Island and taken by Lin Qi to the Western Continent—had perhaps been lured on and pushed by the Sovereign Council when they ran amok within the Tiger Clan back then. This